EDITE GRINBERGA

EDITE GRINBERGA
BIO AND ARTIST STATEMENT
Born in 1965, Edite Grinberga grew up and studied in Riga, Latvia, part of the former Soviet
Union. She attended a specialized fine-arts high school and the State Academy of Arts. Her
artistic career commenced with installations, sculptures, and theater costumes. In 1990 a
radical break in her artistic and personal path occurred when she moved to Berlin,
Germany, and dedicated herself to painting. Her son's birth in 1997 initiated another major
change to her current style of minimalistic realism with light and shadow as the main
subjects. She has exhibited throughout Germany, Switzerland, and in the USA, Latvia,
Georgia and Russia.
Light and shadow in their ever-changing dialectic are the core theme of Grinberga’s
paintings. They are interiors or still lives which bathe seemingly commonplace things in a
unique fall of light, with shadows cast by objects not seen in the picture. The paintings
suggest a human presence only metaphorically, but the persons outside the picture-space
and the events occurring before and after the depicted moment are the real protagonists of
her work. It is through the medium of light that the flow of time is visualized. The unique
and transitory fall of light brings the fragility of the moment into consciousness. This
evanescence is sensed as the unexpected reawakening of a poignant memory, bringing back
a stream of memories apparently lost. The ultimate goal of Grinberga’s paintings, therefore,
is to strike a chord in the viewer's feelings and not only to convince aesthetically or
rationally.
EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND
1975 – 1982 Janis Rozentals School of Art, Riga
1982 – 1983 Studies at the State University of Latvia (English and Philology)
1983 – 1988 Studies at the State Academy of Art, Riga (Painting and Textile Design)
1989 Freelance artist in Riga: Installations, theatre costumes, and wax figures
Since 1990 Freelance painter living and and working in Berlin, Germany
2011 Residency in Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA
2014 Audience Award Art Prize Esslingen-Nürtingen, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
2014
Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York
ART FAIR Art Karlsruhe, ART FAIR Kunst Zurich, CH
(with Gallery Friedmann-Hahn and Gallery Barbara von Stechow)
Final Round Exibition Art Prize Esslingen-Nürtingen (G)
“Dwelling”, Gallery of Berlin Artists Association (G)
2013
“Pulse of Silence”, Gallery Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt (S)
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ART FAIR Kunst Zurich, CH
Community Gallerys in Hameln, Schöningen and Hohenaschau (S)
Final Round Exibition Losito Art Prize, Potsdam (G)
2012
Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, (S) Catalogue „Painting 2009 – 2012“
ART FAIR Art Fair Köln (with Gallery Friedmann-Hahn)
2011
ART FAIR Art Santa Fe, USA (with Santa Fe Art Institute)
Gallery Esquisse, Nyon, CH (S)
“Latvian Applied Arts Today and Yesterday” Riga, Latvia (G)
2010
“Waiting for Vermeer” Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin (S)
2009
Gallery K22, Berlin (S)
2008
Museum in the Waldemar Tower, Dannenberg-Elbe (S), Catalogue “Light Signs”
Gallery Lindern, Lindern (S)
2007
Gallery Golkar, Cologne (G)
Gallery Atelier Brandt Credo, Bremen (S)
2006
“40 Hertz Green “ Gallery Kunstoffice Berlin (S)
''Heimat'' (''Homeland''), Community Gallery Wilmersdorf, Berlin (G)
2005
Gallery Thea Fischer-Reinhardt, Berlin (S)
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sylt (S)
2003
Marburger Hängung (Marburg Exposition), Marburg (G)
2002
St. Thomas's Church Berlin (S)
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2001
Gallery Movin’ Art, Berlin (S), Catalogue “Detachable Shadows”
Sculpture Park Katzow (S)
2000
''The small happiness, the great longing'', City of Darmstadt (G)
1998
Gallery Les Beaux Artes, Berlin (S)
1997
Abguss Sammlung Antiker Plastik
(Federal State of Berlin Museum for Greco-Roman Sculpture), Berlin (S)
1996
Gallery Hofkunst, Berlin (with Bärbel Dieckmann) (S)
1995
„Dezembersalon“ (''December salon''), Gallery Taube, Berlin (G)
1989
„Latvian avantguarde“, Kunsthalle Berlin (City of Berlin Exhibition Hall)
(with Miervaldis Polis) (G)
1988
''Paintings on fabrics'', Tiflis, Georgia (G)
1987
''Young artists of the USSR'', Moscow, Russia (G)
1986
''Young Artists of Latvia'', Riga, Latvia (G)
S - Solo Exhibition G – Group Exhibition
COLLECTIONS
State Art Foundation, Riga, Latvia
Museum for Medicine, Riga, Latvia
Auto Museum, Riga, Latvia
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Mill Valley, CA
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